Walmart Parking Lots & Sold-Out Gigs: The Plot In You's Most Memorable Shows

Ohio metalcore outfit The Plot In You announced a huge headline tour of Australia last week, bringing fellow American heavy acts Fit For A King and Boundaries and local rockers Banks Arcade along for the ride.

The tour is landing on our shores in January 2026, hitting venues in Fremantle, Adelaide, Chelsea Heights, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane.

Since their formation 15 years ago, The Plot In You have gathered critical acclaim and adoration from fans. They burst onto the metalcore scene in 2011 with First Born, announcing themselves in music with a soon-to-be signature sound. They’ve since blended alternative, electronica, R&B, and more surprising elements in their thunderous music.

Last Down Under with a sold-out headline run in 2022 before wowing crowds at the 2023 Good Things Festival, The Music previously summed up the band’s previous visits like so: “...if you missed this tour, you missed what was actually possibly the metalcore show of the year.”

The Plot In You are returning to Australia following their trio EP releases last year: Vol. 1, Vol. 2, and Vol. 3. To celebrate their impending tour, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Landon Tewers has taken The Music down memory lane by sharing his most notable tour memories.

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The Plot In You’s Landon Tewers’ Most Memorable Touring Memories To Date

The first memory that popped into my head was from the last tour that we did. It was actually a very tame tour for most of it; we didn’t really have too many crazy nights, and nobody was really drinking a lot or anything like that. But on the very last night, the energy was really there, and we all went pretty hard on the alcohol.
By the end of the night, we had thrown all of the potato chips that were in our bus on the floor and started stomping on them. And we took our guitar tech and just started dragging him through the chips. I don’t know what it was about him particularly, but we were just throwing him around all night, tackling him and throwing him back and forth to each other. It was disgusting. And then we had to clean it all up.
The next morning, there were still chips everywhere. The chip thing’s not new, though; we’ve been doing that a lot over the years. That became a new staple for us at least one point on every tour.
Another memory: It’s actually kind of similar to the first one, but it’s definitely worth bringing up: our tour manager had an infected toenail, and he was prescribed Epsom salt to bathe his foot in. So he had a prescription for Epsom salt, came onto the bus, and showed us.
Ethan [Yoder], our bass player, never drinks, but this one night, he decided to drink. He thought it would be funny; he ripped the Epsom salt out of our tour manager’s hands and just slammed it on the ground, and it exploded everywhere. So, we started doing snow angels in it and doing the Dune sandwalk, that stupid walk they do in Dune. That was hilarious mostly because it was the most out-of-character thing for Ethan to do.
There was also a show that we played in Baltimore about three years ago, for whatever reason they didn’t have a barricade. It was a sold-out show, and there was no barricade. Our crew from the tour had to stop doing their jobs to come up and push people off stage. People were piling onto each other to the point where it was genuinely scary.
I saw kids who were just smacking their heads, and then other kids would fall on top of the kids who had fallen. It looked like something out of a zombie movie. It was genuinely one of the craziest shows I’ve ever played; it was insane. They were just crawling over each other; it was so wild.
This next one’s actually an old story; it’s a memory from a previous band that I was in - but it’s a good one. We were playing somewhere in California, at the time I was playing guitar and I did one of those guitar spin things. When I spun the guitar, I felt it hit something, but I didn’t know what it was, so I just went back to playing. And then, a song later, I start noticing that our singer is forgetting the words and slurring his speech.
I look over at him, and the back of his head is dripping blood. We had to stop the show and take him to hospital, and it turned out he had a severe concussion. He tried to keep going at the time, but then the next day or two later, he was like: ‘Yeah, I don’t remember any of it’. He had zero recollection of it happening; he just woke up in the hospital.
And lastly, this was a long, long time ago, we were staying in a Walmart parking lot and we decided we wanted to start a fire in the middle of the parking lot. So we started a fire, and then we were seeing how many people we could pack on top of a skateboard and ride down a hill.
I think we got up to three people just laying flat on each other, sort of planking on the skateboard. And we ended the night just breaking bottles against the Walmart. We were very bad kids back in the day; we got into a lot of mischief.